Irish Lawmaker: Recognizing Palestine as a State Is Rooted in Our History of Colonization & Famine

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Three European nations have announced plans to recognize the State of Palestine, joining 143 other countries around the world in formal recognition. Leaders in Ireland, Norway and Spain cited a desire to support a political solution to the ongoing conflict in Gaza as the driving force behind the announcements, while Israel responded by recalling its ambassadors from all three countries. Israel's Ambassador to Ireland Dana Erlich called the move a "prize for terrorism." Catherine Connolly, an independent member of the Irish parliament, rejects Erlich's characterization, instead calling recognition "a step for peace" and a "direct result of people's outrage and upset" over Israeli brutality in Palestine. She connects the Palestinian national struggle with Ireland's own fight for recognition at the League of Nations just over a century ago and its history with famine and colonialism. "Our solidarity is with people who suffer in any way, but particularly from famine," Connolly says. "Next Tuesday will be historical, when we raise the Palestinian flag on the grounds of our parliament."
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[@georgeblackley6028]

Ireland suffered tremendously over the centuries by its proximity to England.

[@toyotaprius79]

That's how the British Empire began to spread through deceit and bloodshed, and ultimately the institutional dehumanisation of Irish people (and Catholics) as simians

[@lawrenceleverton7426]

They also sided with the Germans during the Great War.

[@toomylight2311]

No they did not where the hell did you get that from ? ????

[@ceooflonelinessinc.267]

Ireland suffers tremendously from people with the same religious and cultural backgrounds as Palestinians

[@absiddique139]

​@@lawrenceleverton7426 No Fool it was neutral country during world war 2.

[@warrenpaine]

Prior to the potato famine in Ireland in 1845, Ireland's population was estimated to be 8 million. Ireland is probably the only country in the world that has fewer people in it today than it had in 1845. That was no accident. It was due to a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing by the British colonial overlords who historically deemed Catholic Ireland as a threat to British security.

[@Dischordian]

Yet Irish politicians are doing virtually nothing to cause material change for Palestine

[@Maidaseu]

The Irish produced 5X enough food to feed our population, but the British stole it for their empire while half of Ireland starved.

[@annbritton1714]

They did not consider Ireland a threat to their security. Thr Irish, like the Palestinians today, were and still are to many British, considered a lower life form. That is the way of colonialists, undermine their targets humanity, their language, their religion, their systems of governance. Then the colonists behave in the most extreme brutal way to shock and terrorise. Only the British use the excuse it was for their security, revisionist history. The British conquered so much of the world because they were extremely violent. If the oppressed retaliate they use the tit for tat as propaganda to turn their own people against them.

[@perseuspersikus6830]

I think British wanted the food to rather go to the cattle so that themselves had beef to eat.

[@Onora619]

My family has been grieving the move for generations. It's something the Irish side of my family (Mostly Scotch-Irish by descent, American by birth) and the one things that gets passed down is that we'd rather be there again. I was lucky enough to live there for half a year about 20 years ago. It's a deep sadness that assimilation couldn't cure. A lot of people that have strong roots in Ireland feel that way. Most of our families weren't here by choice.

[@gs123]

"I'd prefer not to respond to the Israeli ambassador, because she's had access to our airwaves for a very long time and she's failed to learn anything." 🔥

[@julietjakiran6590]

she is a destructive woman

[@AodhanBeag]

Mic drop ✋🏼🎤 💥

[@krisellis6384]

Learning only comes from being ignorant ..meaning .. WANTING to know the TRUTH.

[@AttractaFahy1]

You chose one of the best in Ireland. Catherine is from Galway, where I live. We love her. She cycles around the city on her bike, is the people’s person, champion for the disadvantaged, and a voice for the oppressed. A great woman, full of moral integrity, we are so proud of her. Most American politicians are paid off and have sold their souls. They are devoid of morality.

[@mattnewhouse1781]

Atleast my American politicians dont support Hamas.

[@OmANnIe]

​@mattnewhouse1781 you do NOT speak for ALL Americans. The US will be on the wrong side of history. To be complicit in this genocide is NOTHING to be proud of. I sincerely hope my country will stop with this greed and lies. This is about oil. It's never been about Hamas.

[@sker6902]

​@@mattnewhouse1781😅😅😅😅😅

[@sker6902]

​@@mattnewhouse1781your politicians support internationally proven war crimes, too numerous to mention. Your politicians are a disgrace to the word "Democracy".

[@gourdguru]

american here. i _thought_ that sounded like a Galway accent, but wasn't positive. cool that she just bikes about and stays connected to the community. yeah our politicians are for the most part deep in various pockets with few exceptions. we do have one or two that still have a soul, but we're talking single drops of pure water in a fouled lake.

[@swim66]

As a Spaniard ❤I am a proud that Spain recognizes Gaza as a state , great 👍

[@denig2000able]

Are you gonna take in 20 muslims to your home then at your own expense when they get thrown into Spain?

[@samsunnahar9175]

THANKS A LOT IRELAND 🇮🇪, SPAIN 🇪🇸 ,AND NORWAY 🇳🇴!!

[@eyedownload]

Yes those of us who are in despair and anguish watching this go on and who have been abandoned by our ghoul monster leaders feel hope by your actions! We are all so grateful to see movement in the right direction and we might just worship the ground you walk on! Thank you 🙏

[@katieakin9397]

⁠​⁠@@doomslayer1984 Irish people today are the descendants of those who stayed and didn’t colonize the Americas. You can’t conflate those who left to colonize with those who stayed and suffered the famine.

[@katejudson8907]

​@@katieakin9397true. And btw, speaking as an Australian , our ' settler experience ' of colonisation was facilitated by the extermination of First nations peoples by the laws of the Brittish, and the will of the Brittish and Scottish landed gentry, under the guns held too often by Irish convicts or hired fearless Irish gunmen. Given they were not free travelling settlers at all they hardly count as colonialism's rapists but as fodder for the colonial rape machine.

[@doomslayer1984]

@@katieakin9397 Doesn't change the fact that plenty of other Irish did go out and colonize lands there slick.

[@dublintvcontent2023]

Not so much Irish people as Irish political class, who mostly don't care at all about Palestine or it's people but see the issue as a political football to use and manipulate as much as possible for various vested interests. In reality while most people are generally sympathetic towards Palestine issues and people , they are also mostly indifferent and prefer to take a NEUTRAL stance, wishing both Israel and Palestine well, disliking violence and war/conflict intensely. SILENT MAJORITY you might say.

[@BackToRootz]

As a German, I love Irish politics. I never had sympathy for Norway because of the joint operations with the US to destroy the Nord Stream, Jens Stoltenberg as a warmonger and the killing of whales. But with this move the PM has shown that Norway uses its sovereignty instead of being a puppet of the US.

[@GordonBoyland-ux8tx]

HITLER'S SISTER .

[@damali-karlawhittaker6462]

♥️

[@denig2000able]

Ireland is majorly fcuked over by the WEF. And Connolly in the video os despised by most Irish people. She lies through her backside day after day.

[@mylenek241]

Ireland has its own history, it is not over yet. I have been to Dublin several times, rarely have I seen a people know their history of independence so well, the suffering they endured is terrible, really terrible too.The people suffered the Famine as in Algeria elsewhere. They were forced to leave their land like the Kabyles of Algeria. The Irish have practically the same history as Algeria. I love Ireland 😘😘😘 thank U for your coourage and Humanity... 🙏

[@slimpickens01]

Ah the Irish, now there is a people who knows their place..... Firmly under the Brits feet of course!!

[@Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak]

@mylenek241 but all that didn't turn you into sadistic monsters who enjoy massacring innocents though did it?..

[@emerywills5814]

Like their brethren in North America *as colonists* participating in *North American Biblical Yudean Genocide.*

@@slimpickens01 Yeah, and it's at the feet of terrorists, licking their boots.

[@nimishachowdhury4577]

@@slimpickens01 Ah the British, people who know their place... . . . Firmly under the bottom of their daddy America of course!

[@manuelbello5806]

Go Ireland

[@theblueflame7592]

I thought that it already went!

[@NJIT22]

Go Palestine to Ireland

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

Yes, it goes… directly to the collapse…

[@johnmckiernan2176]

@@NJIT22 All the right wing reactionaries cheering on ethnic cleansing and suggesting Ireland should be burdened with Palestinian refugees. You all seem to have forgotten who the migrants are, here. They're called Zionists. A million arrived between 1917 and 1950. We can take our share, if it helps resolve the conflict, but we don't have room for all of them.

[@vivi_75]

Good Bless the Irish

Notre Dame Fighting Irish?

[@lervish1966]

They are evil

[@bertieblagden711]

@@lervish1966take your medication

[@somebody5398]

ew

[@Mavi-de2mv]

Thank you Ireland Spain and Norway for being the new European leaders

[@Maryjaneitsfourtwenty.]

Ireland will hopefully be voting out our ridiculous government!! But, the Irish people still support Palestine 🇵🇸

[@juskibaruhovic2148]

Ireland ,Spain and Norway What a miserabl leaders of Europe.

[@Maryjaneitsfourtwenty.]

@@juskibaruhovic2148 Why? Because they think Netanyahu and his soldiers of death are war criminals! What are you standing up for??

[@makf1974]

​@@juskibaruhovic2148 Apologies for not being on the side of the g e n o Z I d e a l goverment of the $tate of I.

[@brianlevine249]

That's all it takes to stop genocide?? Who knew. Since Ireland, Spain, and Norway all can reach Gaza directly from sea they need to take all the Palestinian refugees. Otherwise they are cowards.

[@teachermohamedalde]

Thank you Ireland for showing maturity and humanity not the selfish egoïste and undemocratic irresponsible America

[@romanobaggio5961]

Move out

[@maya12hawk]

Simple Simon does not speak for Eire. Ireland

[@pao6097]

@@romanobaggio5961 If everybody that disagreed with their government’s policies left, I think most countries would be pretty empty.

[@eyedownload]

@@romanobaggio5961 I think you made a typo - it's called vote them out.

[@margaretmcguire8952]

​@@maya12hawkSimon Harris speaks for me

[@xychachiniyoyo]

Thanks, Thanks,Thanks to Ireland, Spain & Norway 🇮🇪❤️🇪🇸❤️🇧🇻❤️🇵🇸❤️

[@mikemann1960]

Imagine if we ALL work together, we would have been past a Startreck level of being. We need progress not profiteering from war.

[@mikemann1960]

Say her name, # Rachel Currie! You are not forgotten ❤️

[@ceooflonelinessinc.267]

The discussion in this war is absurd. First. Israel acted selflessly to live in peace with the Palestinians in Gaza. It was more than a decade ago when Israel itself relocated thousands of individuals living in Gaza with lethal force from their homes to follow the agreement, which obligated the Palestinians in return to stop any kind of aggression towards Israel. The Palestinians had the chance to build a safe, functional, and prosperous livelihood. But the first thing the Palestinians did in return was to elect a government that enshrined the goal of destroying Israel in their constitution. The elected government followed through with its promise. Since its founding, thousands of rockets have flown into Israel. Dozens of civilians died in terrorist attacks. Millions of aid funds - intended for civilian purpose - were misused to build rockets, tunnels, and other nonsense. The crimes committed on October 7th like raping women, killing children, or kidnapping a baby, was Humus has been doing for years. Secondly. Israel behaved more humanely in this conflict than any other conceivable party in any imaginable conflict. It allowed Palestinians to work in Israel, receive medical care or even migrate into their country. During war, they warn civilians where their military is operating. They admit collateral damage and apologize for it. They saved Sinwar’s life giving him a lethal brain surgery. They treated the daughter of Haniyyas daughter for her complex disease in Israel. While Humus was building rockets and tunnels with all the foreign aid, Israel supplied their civilians with free water and electricity. The situation is clear. In no other conflict the responsibility for the suffering has been so one sided and clear - in no other conflict have the perpetrators been held accountable so weakly. People with voice and power who claim to reject war have the duty to unequivocally name the culprit of this war and do everything in their power to eliminate them. Everything else is responsibility for the resulting suffering and will extend it.

[@EstadodePalestina]

Viva Palestina libre para siempre 28-M

[@deadfox0091]

​​@@mikemann1960you wont get anywhere near Star Trek while catering to Bronze Age beliefs there kiddo. That religion wants you either dead or on your knees.

[@jpknijff]

Good to see at least some countries have a brain, a heart, and a sense of justice.

[@lawrenceleverton7426]

What these 3 nations don't realize is they have affected Exports and Tourism. Enjoy the additional Tax Burden.

[@ceooflonelinessinc.267]

They don't have one. It's quite ironic. All these european countries have massive problems with people of the same cultural and religious backgrounds as the palestinian. Look at sweden or Londostan. We shouldn't support people who hate our values.

[@donnavorce8856]

143 so far

[@UNCIVILIZE]

Yes, suddenly everyone's a humanitarian. What about Yemen and a hundred other Humanitarian devastations no one talks about?

[@seedsowlife]

@@UNCIVILIZEwho says no one talks about it. MSM doesn’t but they don’t represent everyone.

[@antonioramos8804]

You go Ireland. To help those that suffer is an immeasurable act of humanness

[@adriennefried5368]

Providing humanitarian aid to a known terrorist organization is a violation of the Geneva convention

[@UNCIVILIZE]

There's suffering everywhere. Including in Israel.

[@frankdunne-gp6oy]

​@@adriennefried5368who says their terrorists.Who is so pure that they can cast the first stone.

[@adriennefried5368]

@@frankdunne-gp6oy Well unless you are not aware Palestinian Hamas terrorists organization is a recognized terrorist organization by just about every country and even by United Nations. Plus the Quran states death to the infidel and destruction of Western civilization and the elimination specifically of Jewish people and the destruction of Israel. And if you need an explanation of the word infidel, it means everybody who does not believe in Allah. Their vener of civility hides a sinister agenda.

[@sarbo2335]

​@@adriennefried5368they're providing it to civilians not hamas, infact in Irelands speech yesterday they condemned hamas and want a Palestinian state without them, Stop spreading misinformation

[@aes0p895]

I had NO IDEA it was upwards of 150 countries! That is wonderful news. Thank you.

[@eyedownload]

Yes the US always almost single handedly obstructs the votes for independence and for the ceasefires. The US is totally complicit in this genocide as is Germany. They supply all the bombs and fighter jets. Any hand wringing by Biden is performative gaslighting.

[@zerovikings5852]

US and Uk preventing it all. Because they’re the losers in this

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

You have no idea of many things…. especially of the history.

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

You have no idea of many things… especially of history.

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

You have no idea of many things… especially of history.

[@taranehahmadi-parker1412]

Norway 🇳🇴 Ireland ♥️♥️♥️

[@Carolinel673]

Spain 🇪🇸

[@martinhumble]

Don't forget that Norway in a way belongs to Sweden. Well, they don't agree as I'm a Swede 😉

[@Carolinel673]

@@martinhumble looks like yous will be joining us then .

[@martinhumble]

@@Carolinel673 A Conservative government though...

[@Carolinel673]

@@martinhumble I think the people with their feet will do it . Obviously the Irish ☘️ are different bc of all that stealing Ireland 🇮🇪. Ronaldo the footballer could get Portugal 🇵🇹 on board he refused to shake hands with some ISRHELL rep after or before a match & he removed coke from the press conference.

[@Bavafa1]

Utmost respect for the Irish people and the country of Ireland, Spain and Norway for standing for peace in Middle East and against OCCUPATION and colonization.

[@ceooflonelinessinc.267]

The discussion in this war is absurd. First. Israel acted selflessly to live in peace with the Palestinians in Gaza. It was more than a decade ago when Israel itself relocated thousands of individuals living in Gaza with lethal force from their homes to follow the agreement, which obligated the Palestinians in return to stop any kind of aggression towards Israel. The Palestinians had the chance to build a safe, functional, and prosperous livelihood. But the first thing the Palestinians did in return was to elect a government that enshrined the goal of destroying Israel in their constitution. The elected government followed through with its promise. Since its founding, thousands of rockets have flown into Israel. Dozens of civilians died in terrorist attacks. Millions of aid funds - intended for civilian purpose - were misused to build rockets, tunnels, and other nonsense. The crimes committed on October 7th like raping women, killing children, or kidnapping a baby, was Humus has been doing for years. Secondly. Israel behaved more humanely in this conflict than any other conceivable party in any imaginable conflict. It allowed Palestinians to work in Israel, receive medical care or even migrate into their country. During war, they warn civilians where their military is operating. They admit collateral damage and apologize for it. They saved Sinwar’s life giving him a lethal brain surgery. They treated the daughter of Haniyyas daughter for her complex disease in Israel. While Humus was building rockets and tunnels with all the foreign aid, Israel supplied their civilians with free water and electricity. The situation is clear. In no other conflict the responsibility for the suffering has been so one sided and clear - in no other conflict have the perpetrators been held accountable so weakly. People with voice and power who claim to reject war have the duty to unequivocally name the culprit of this war and do everything in their power to eliminate them. Everything else is responsibility for the resulting suffering and will extend it.

[@vincentvangogh8092]

@@deadfox0091 French occupied England a lot more recent just 1000 yrs ago so do they have the right to take England ? its ridiculous anyway to suggest that people who are from Eastern Europe have more rights than very semetic Palestinians

[@mohamedsaleh5049]

​@@deadfox0091😆😆😆🤮

[@deadfox0091]

@@vincentvangogh8092 so the Hebrew exodus from Egypt were all European Jews?

[@charmainechatkin4263]

anti semitic evil heartless people

[@davidpate3859]

Israel recalling it's diplomats sure solves the problem of having to kick their diplomatic legation out of these respective countries! Beginning to look like some countries are finding their moral compass! "If Israelis don't want to be accused of being like the Nazis, they simply need to stop behaving like Nazis." - Norman Finkelstein

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

Why don’t you cite Josef Goebbels?

[@davidpate3859]

Always one to please "If the lie is big enough, and you tell it often enough, you get Israel" per David, or if you please, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

[@jaqmart]

Ireland has lots of young voters on the side of Palestinians - pragmatic for political purposes but may be unwise.

[@annbritton1714]

Spoken like a true coward, your opinion is one shared by all the lookers on I assume. So afraid to speak up for the hunan rights of the clearly terrorised. People suffer the consequences of their actions, be they silent or vocal, doing the right thing is never unwise.

[@satnamo]

We, in Ireland 🇮🇪 have a deep empathy for Palestinians because of that shared experience of occupation and starvation 🇵🇸 We recognize Palestine as a free and independent country with its right to self-determination ⚔️

[@virtuosa69]

Thank you 💖🙏

[@virtuosa69]

Thank you 💖🙏

[@karlwilliams2703]

😂😂😂😂

[@brianbeag]

You ignore the fact that in 1922 Palestine was partitioned with a new Palestinian state called Transjordan east of the river Jordan with the remaining part west of the river Jordan to be the Jewish Homeland. The Arabs said No. Then in 1937, a further partition plan was proposed for separate Arab and Jewish states. The Arabs said no. Then in 1947 another, more favourable partition plan to the Arabs was again rejected. The Jews accepted and declared their independence. The Arabs along with 5 neighbouring Arab states attacked the new Isreal state and lost. The Arabs, or Palestinians as they were rebranded by Yasser Arafat and the PLO in 1964 have continued to wage war, intifadas and suicide bombs on Israel and rejected every peace solution. Hamas replaced the PA in Gaza after Israel withdrew and launched an even more terrorist campaign against Israel with 1000s of missiles launched in addition to suicide bombings. And, of course …October 7. It is not a question of shared land, it is a policy of no Jews and no Israel. The comparison of a shared history with Ireland is factually incorrect. The plight of the Palestinian people is of their own making, or more specifically their corrupt leadership with it’s anti Jew & anti Israel ideology.

[@virtuosa69]

@@brianbeag We ignore your biased, nonfactual drivel...

[@themightylex]

I wish we had more politicians here in the USA that could speak and think as critically as Catherine Connolly does here.

[@Steve-gr6jm]

Jill Stein

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

@@Steve-gr6jmYes, she is the scoundrel as well.

[@CLBL-qg1nz]

The time has arrived that the us is no longer considered a world leader. Their mask of double standards has fallen due to this Israel Palestine situation.

[@steadychasingmoneybands6213]

you prolly have a highway to play on too

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

@@steadychasingmoneybands6213 Only next to you…

[@cev12]

It's such a relief to hear *some* leaders speaking sanity and basic decency.

[@hkiani6853]

%100.%100

[@mapitsithamaga-xn3oi]

Precisely

[@wendyfay16]

& Humanely!

[@karlwilliams2703]

😂😂😂😂

[@GordonBoyland-ux8tx]

SHITE WHAT ABOUT THE I.R.A. YOU CLOWN

[@AbdulwahedShamali-mt1ix]

Sending love and appreciation to the Irish people from a Palestinian who lives in the US and married to an amazing Irish lady

[@LeonVEKH]

And sending it back to you, your family and your people at home in Palestine and around the world with a big hug 🤗 ❤ from your average, tea drinking moanbag Irish lad that is equal parts eejit and a plank...with love from Ireland. Saoirse don Phalaistín 🕊️🇵🇸🕊️🇮🇪🕊️

[@JobHuntingAbroad]

❤

[@jadreeyanmahmoud]

Justice will prevail as no one can prevent sun shine,,, free Palestine

[@tony608]

Nazireland

Palestine does not exist.

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

How something that is dead, can be free?

[@iamwell5654]

And Israel should go back to the 1948 border. They’ve already taken more than 55% of Palestinian land go back to the old border. Leave the Palestinian to live in peace like they were before Israel was born.

[@ingehanson]

Israel was not born for the Jews. it was born by Zionists for the West to have a foothold in the Middle East and find it more convenient to rule there.

[@cristinabutasimon9159]

the old border was the Jordan river to the east and the Sinai Peninsula to the southwest. West Bank and Gaza were annexed illegally by Jordan and Egypt respectively. Israel regained them in a defensive war when 3 surrounding Arab countries attacked. "Leave the Palestinian to live in peace like they were before Israel was born." Like they were under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years? Or the Mamluks of Egypt? Or the: Ayyubid Frankish and Christian Umayyad and Fatimid Byzantine Sassanids Roman Hasmonean Jewish dynasty Seleucid Persian Babylonian occupations? As you can see there was never a sovereign Palestine. Before the Babylonian conquest there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea. The Jews originated in Judea The Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula. Who is occupying who? Arabs came to the land with the spread of islam in the 7th century CE. By than Jews had been in the land for 2000 years.

[@bobflemming100]

Isreal needs to go back to 70AD

[@frederiqueleno5415]

@@bobflemming100Colonial Israel needs to go away. It is a threat to Jews all over the world.

[@Yusufiya]

Before the Judea and Samaria it was the land of canan and your god commanded the jews to invade and kill every living thing including babies and animals That kingdom didn't lasted more than 80 years while the palestinians the descents of the cannanite where living in the land of canan when your ancestors were slaves in Egypt. ​@@cristinabutasimon9159

[@ahmadsulvifafiru5]

Proud to be Ireland who consistently defends Palestine. Freedom Palestine🇵🇸

[@johnohara197]

No we do not! This corrupt Irish Government does not represent us! The indigenous Irish people! Many, many of us support Israel and our Jewish friends and neighbours! Our elections are next month! We will vote this corrupt government out! Our Jewish community has been with us since 1079 AD!! We do not support Hamas terrorist's! You will see what happens in our elections! We will reverse this decision! Supporting Israel from Ireland ☘

[@johnmckiernan2176]

@@johnohara197 Oh, look a hunter gatherer. Indigenous my *rse.

[@brianlevine249]

Is there a single Irish person in Gaza defending Palestine? Or a single boat evacuating Gaza? They can reach it by sea directly. Yet ok, empty gestures is all it takes now huh?

[@ABruce-fv9zo]

Well said Catherine. We as Scots would also be at your side recognizing Palestine if we were not still being colonised by England. Alba gu brath.

[@laetitialogan2017]

♥️🇮🇪

[@Andulsi]

Hi from Ireland. We hoped Scotland would bid for freedom in the wake of Brexit

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

@@AndulsiAs well as Catalonia and Basques.

[@wor53lg50]

And Iberia and Galicia..

[@SamiiJymmy]

God bless ☘️,Spain and 🇳🇴 ❤❤❤❤

[@semsemeini7905]

Spain the country of the Inquisition that burnt, robbed and expelled it's Jewish population in 1492, that like Ireland gave political asylum to Nazis such as Otto Skorzeny after the war. Free Catalonia, Ceuta and Melilla from the Sea to the Mountains. Norway which was led by Quisling, who subsequently robbed it's Norwegian Jewish population and in 1942 shipped them to Auschwitz. Ireland only recognised Israel in 1964; Spain only in 1986. Relations have never been friendly.

[@emerywills5814]

The original colonials of Biblical Negroes?

[@seedsowlife]

@@doomslayer1984fun facts that are irrelevant at this moment when a genocide is occurring and live-streamed globally. Pseudo-intellectual but 100% nonsense for this day and time.

[@Zenica13a]

As a Bosnian I always loved Ireland 🇮🇪 even before war in Bosnia and after that war I think that became even stronger. Fight for freedom it's what brings us closer. Two nations Palestine and Ireland will always have my support in resistance against their occupiers. Free Palestine and thank you Ireland for standing on right side of history like you always did.

[@toyotaprius79]

Go raibh míle maith agat❤

[@user-xu5vl5th9n]

When did this brain-fart come to the Irish government? Apparently after genocidal racists attacked Israelis because they wanted some ISIS style Caliphate. Well, what's a pogrom between friends?

[@geovanniali6060]

Oppression breeds Resistance 🕊️ They tried to bury us but forgot we were seeds ☘️🍉

[@semsemeini7905]

Support for the Croatian and other minorities in Bosnia who suffer persecution from the Government in Sarajevo.

[@Zenica13a]

@semsemeini7905 I have friends Croatians and other minorities they never complained about any kind of persecution by government. I really would appreciate enlightening on the topic.

[@patbaig4279]

Thank you Catherine Connolly for speaking the truth

[@johnmckiernan2176]

@@doomslayer1984 "It was the Irish who were initially colonizing and persecuting the English population shortly after the end of Roman rule." The "English population" were nowhere near the places Irish people migrated to, namely the modern day west of Scotland and Pembrokeshire in Wales. Next; the English people didn't exist back then. Angles, Saxons and Jutes did. And they were still on the continent. Why? Because the arrival of Gaels (Irish people) in Britain preceded the arrival of Angles, Saxons and Jutes in Britain by a significant span of time, about a century. There is no record of any invasion of western Caledonia (modern Scotland) by Gaels...because you have your history back to front. A Roman Expedition reported them already present in the 300s AD. They merely recognisded their language and habits as similar to those their scouts had reported in Ireland and presumed they had invaded. That isn't necessarily so; the language could have been spread via trade or intermarriage, and there is no evidence in the archaeological for a change of technologies, fashion, architecture or weapons at the time. Lastly; it wasn't colonisation. Colonisation has the specific meaning of a centralised state taking over another territory and stealing its land and resources. The Irish invasion of Wales seems to have been by a tribal group in modern County Waterford that merely took over local kingships and within generations had gone native; Irish names disappear within 50 years. So not colonisation. In Argyll and the Western Isles, the major vector of Irish culture was Dál Riata, a minor sept or family kingdom the Irish territories of which consisted only of modern county Antrim. Since the crossing at that point is less than 15 km wide, in any case, it's not clear if any conquering was done at all. It was more that Ireland became literate before Pictland did and introduced its language alongside Christianity by Dál Riatans intermarrying with Pictish clans, and via the work of missionary monks like St. Columcille and St. Canice among the pagan Picts. So not colonisation. Oh, and the same state of Dál Riata had numerous military setbacks and was itself conquered by the eventual first king of Scotland, Kenneth McAlpine, a Gaelicised Pict from Fortriu. In fact, the peoples had so inter-blended that he called himself "Rex Scottorum et Pictorum" (King of Gaels/Scots and Picts). That's not colonisation. That's a merging of cultures. You promised us a fun fact. What you stated was neither fun nor a fact. By a long shot. PS, Tristan and Isolde is a myth. From the Arthurian cycle. Written in French about 600 or 700 years later. And Arthur and his knights were supposed to be ancient Christian Romano-Britons- ie the ancestors of the Welsh - not Englishmen, who were the descendants, culturally, at least, of barbaric pagan Anglo-Saxons who fought against the Celtic Romano-Britons.

[@khallo151]

Excited to see Ireland becoming synonymous with peacekeeping.

[@user-br9ne9gl5t]

The only thing the Irish army has done for decades is peacekeeping. That is our thing. This is nothing new.

[@RobinHerzig]

Powerful inspiring words representing the great Irish republic ✊👏

[@robertlawrence9000]

That's great clownism right there

[@TINMAN-jm9sw]

I don’t know this lady but she has more balls than sleepy Joe.

[@Alkemisti]

It is revolting how the representative of the Zionist regime has the audacity to ask: 'How is this going to help Palestinians?'

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

You will not save Hamas….

[@cryptonighit]

Students united ❤ worldwide Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤“ champion of free speech “ 800 years of Resistance

[@UNCIVILIZE]

Ireland, champion of free speech? NO. You can go to jail there for saying the wrong thing.

[@cryptonighit]

@@UNCIVILIZE Dark days are ahead for your kind.

[@semsemeini7905]

Free speech? Tell that to the demonstrators in Dublin and other towns who are complaining that the Health and Educational System is collapsing.

[@cryptonighit]

@@semsemeini7905 “ Natural born liars “ indeed a virtue among your kind

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

@@cryptonighitYour kind is already having it😜

[@PoppaCYS]

I love how easily the Irish lawmaker countered the gaslighting from the Israeli ambassador. The idea that history didn't begin Oct. 7th is something that needs to be stressed more.

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

Yes, she is afraid of polemic with Israeli ambassador, so she run away - it’s easier. Yes, before October 7, was November 30, 1947.

[@SinghalLouis]

a 114 countries voted to include Palestine as a member of the UN body.. I hope that each one of those nations will show courage and recognise Palestine as an independent country!! Let Israel recall their embassy from 114 countries!! lets see if they have the courage to do that!

No such animal exists on any map. The UN is a joke which no serious person or intellect should recognize, only elitists rubbing elbows.

[@leechowning2712]

Over a hundred and fourty already do. But they are not important enough to count. With these three to break the dam, I have hopes that the rest will as well. Over 140... three fourths of the 190 members of the UN... but even this morning I see the Israeli government saying their answer is to take more, to push the palestinians out faster, before they take root. The goal for the Zionist government is the end of this two state question by not having anyone left to çhallenge them.

[@DjoniMartino]

143 countries

[@tryme1828]

So who will be it's government hamas 😂😂

[@SinghalLouis]

@@tryme1828 none of your f business.. or anyone else's..

[@ganesharavindh2302]

Thanks to support Palestine for world peace and humanity Love from India 🇮🇳♥🇵🇸🇿🇦🇳🇴🇪🇸🇮🇪🗺☮

[@l.russellbrown9732]

Typical Irish antisemitism Nothing new! Mortified

[@naghatkhan9712]

Very well spoken by Irish woman. Bless you!

[@Matt-ww9wv]

It's a pleasure to see the elected officials of Ireland aren't complete ghouls beholden to Israel. I'm too used to witnessing the opposite in my country. If it weren't for channels like this it would be difficult to find pro-Palestinian narratives. Not because that's illegal but because media is so beholden to reinforcing the status quo it has defeated the purpose of journalism.

[@christinepark1398]

Every YT channel I watch is pro-Palestine and I am subbed to hundreds of channels. You could do a YT search on "Palestine" or look for "Ireland, Spain, and Norway recognize" or "university encampments" and click on "filters" and then "this week" so you don't get lists of ten-year-old stuff.

[@bjdefilippo447]

I don't know for certain that you're from the US, but if so, I'd like to point out that there is independent media in the US which is pro-Palestine, and even some mainstream media, including MSNBC has denounced the behavior of Israel.

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

@@bjdefilippo447Yes, exactly, media is “pro-Palestine”, which means it is not a journalism, it is anti- Israel, and antisemitic PROPAGANDA.

[@AbdulMuttalib-ui6vz]

WE SUPPORT ALL BRAVE STUDENTS, CODE PINK MEMBERS AND ALL HUMINITY WORKERS WHO STAND UP FOR JUSTICE AND HUMINITY FOR GAZA.

[@weilam03]

dont speak for me.

[@tonyfincham6126]

@@weilam03no brain .No hope .

[@mohamedsaleh5049]

​@@weilam03😆

[@mohamedsaleh5049]

​@@tonyfincham6126😆😆🤮

[@tony608]

Nazireland

[@retrofedora7061]

Yes. EU should stop trading with i3roel. I hope the brave people who got arrested for trying to obtain evidence are released free now. Thank you Ireland, land of the brave forthright people. Thank you Norway & Spain.

[@davidkavanagh189]

That's on a country by country basis. The EU is not a country. Some countries have ties to Israel and some have none. Germany and the UK are the two biggest Israeli allies in Europe(geographical)

[@GordonBoyland-ux8tx]

IRELAND THE SOUTH IS EVIL BEYOUND REPROACH AS IS THE U.S.A.

[@zoyailpatel3608]

VIVA Ireland❤❤❤Peace for Palestian,South Africa

[@taranehahmadi-parker1412]

Great news , now the other countries should do the decent thing and do the same and recognise 🇵🇸 Palestine as an independent state … no more apartheid ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[@user-qc5pf6xu9w]

Normal countries recognized Palestine DECADES ago.

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

@@user-qc5pf6xu9wand what?

[@mickeywood3012]

"Public Sentiment is everything, with it you cannot fail, without it you cannot win." Abraham Lincoln. ISRAEL IS WRONG.

[@tony608]

Ireland was Hilter’s partner

[@theblueflame7592]

Well Lincoln is dead, Israel is not. What was that little thing that they used to say, oh yeah. " n e v e r a g a i n ". Damn, I guess that they meant it!

[@silverkitty2503]

@@theblueflame7592 Clearly not as they are clearly allowing israeli hostages to be bombed by their own govt. Israel are just the military of the usa and only serve the usa not the safety of their own people. the israeli people HATE the current govt and bibi is over. The defense minister has threatened to resign there are protests all over israel because the israeli people KNOW this govt doesnt care for their families and they are ANGRY..and now the israeli govt is wasting time giving out about ireland using it as a distraction .. when in fact they have a war and hostages to worry about.

[@koujhgloup]

Lincoln is dead, but his humanitarian ideas will live forever whereas a country that committed genocide may very well be short lived

[@MusMasi]

@@theblueflame7592 but they are doing it again. so much for never again.

[@clarity4444]

Well said Catherine Connolly. Thank you for speaking so well for Ireland. Delighted you didnt respond to that shrill ambassador to Ireland. You are so right. She has had way too much access to Irish airtime spewing vitriol and lies and I for one am happy shes gone from our shores. May she stay gone. Free Palestine🇯🇴🇨🇮long live the resistance

[@IRFANM1]

Thank you for your support..May God bless you

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

What a fool you are… Now, try to send ambassador to “Palestine”…. Your antisemitic tricks don’t fly.

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

Now try to send ambassador to “ Palestine”…

[@JobHuntingAbroad]

​yes its our plan, thanks❤🎉😊@user-zq7zb6ew8p

[@samsunnahar9175]

SALUTE THE PRIME MINISTER OF IRELAND 🇮🇪, SIMON FOR HIS EXCELLENT AND VERY POWERFUL SPEECH !!!

[@doomslayer1984]

Fun fact about Ireland folks. It was the Irish who were initially colonizing and persecuting the English population shortly after the end of Roman rule. The film Tristen and Isolde actually is set during this period. Another fun fact is the Irish had just as much if not more of a hand in the colonizing of ethnic peoples lands then the English and many other European colonists. Sure they didn't invade. But a large portion of the settlers who came later were Irish. So calling Irish victims of colonialism is an Oxymoron here folks.

[@antmagor]

@@doomslayer1984 you say that like it mitigates anything England ever did. It doesn’t. If anything, when the chapter of history of which you speak was over England, looked at that situation and said hold my beer. So don’t be coming here acting all innocent trying to downplay the role of your country. if you want to expunge the stain of colonization, don’t look to the past. Stay in the present and demand your Prime Minister reverse the damage of old. That’s what Ireland is doing. And that’s what your country is trying not to do.

[@margaretmcguire8952]

​@@doomslayer1984There is just so much bs from people like you online

[@doomslayer1984]

@@margaretmcguire8952 Its called the truth gringo. Sometimes it hurts.

[@doomslayer1984]

@@antmagor It doesn't change the fact that the Irish are far from being victims of history here. So much like all other white people. They are in no position to being crying victim here.

[@padanglegend]

Gracias 🇪🇦 . Go raibh maith agat 🇮🇪 . Takk 🇧🇻

[@hindculhane470]

Thanks ❤to Spain, Norway , and Ireland for their courage and being on the sound of justice .🍉🍉🍉🎈

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

Did you consume too much of watermelon? That’s only explanation for your brain failure…. By the way, Justice is in an eye of beholder.

[@meloneypullen8746]

God bless the lady of Ireland ❤

[@frankstewart9607]

Thank you Catherine for speaking for the vast majority of Irish people and articulating our support for peace for the Palestinian and Israeli people.

[@slimpickens01]

Ah the Irish, now there is a people who knows their place...... Firmly under the Brits feet of course!!

[@laetitialogan2017]

​​@@slimpickens01As you are right under the boots of the USA.....Can't take a pi** without getting permission first

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

Utter nonsense.

[@dawnoceanside7300]

As an O'Brien, i approve this message ❤️🇺🇲❤️🇮🇪🍀❤️🇯🇴

[@emd180362]

Before the Irish famine there were 12milion in Ireland, now its less than 7million (including the North)

[@warrenpaine]

Prior to the Potato famine in Ireland in 1845, Ireland's population was estimated to be 8 million. Ireland is probably the only country in the world that has fewer people in it today than it had in 1845. That was no accident. It was due to a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing by the British colonial authorities who historically deemed Catholic Ireland as a threat to British security.

[@lervish1966]

Chrisum

[@johnmckiernan2176]

@@warrenpaine It was 8 million according to the 1841 census. The issue is that occupied peoples have a suspicion of government and tend to want to hide their location and numbers. It was never as high as 12 million, but some historians speculate a population of 9 or 10 million. In any case, it was at least 1/3rd of the total UK of the time. There were 2 Britons for every 1 Irish person. Now there are 12-13 Britons for every Irish person. This really shows the extent of the long-term damage the famine caused.

[@warrenpaine]

@@johnmckiernan2176 How many Britons have Irish ancestry? Probably a considerable amount due to the mass migration of Irish to Britain.

[@johnmckiernan2176]

@@warrenpaine The mass migration of Irish only happened because of policies designed to deliberately impoverish the Catholic Gaelic-speaking agrarian population (ie the majority of the time). These were called the Penal Laws. They are at your fingertips. Go search, read and learn.

[@mariaa6918]

Thank you Amy, Catherine is an amazing speaker. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@doomslayer1984]

Fun fact about Ireland folks. It was the Irish who were initially colonizing and persecuting the English population shortly after the end of Roman rule. The film Tristen and Isolde actually is set during this period. Another fun fact is the Irish had just as much if not more of a hand in the colonizing of ethnic peoples lands then the English and many other European colonists. Sure they didn't invade. But a large portion of the settlers who came later were Irish. So calling Irish victims of colonialism is an Oxymoron here folks.

[@slimpickens01]

Ah the Irish, now there is a people who knows their place..... Firmly under the Brits feet of course!!

[@seedsowlife]

@@doomslayer1984you need to just stop this foolishness.

[@doomslayer1984]

@@seedsowlife Its called historical truth slick. And the thing about the truth is. It tends to hurt.

[@seedsowlife]

@@doomslayer1984 too bad about your pain.

[@pamamime1]

Catherine Connolly deserves the world's admiration for doing what the world only talks about. Saving the lives, history, culture, existence of Palestine. Bravo❣️🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

They don’t have any history or culture. Look at 10/7 - that’s who they are…

[@celticali1]

Thanks to all who stand with humanity❤

[@cristinabutasimon9159]

You consider the crimes of a terrorist group humane? May be you consider the celebrations that took place in Gaza on 10/7 as humane, you know the singing and dancing in the streets, handing out sweets, spitting and kicking the naked body of a raped and maimed young women that was being dragged through streets. 98% of Gazans, women and children were rejoicing.

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

@@cristinabutasimon9159You are absolutely correct.

[@celticali1]

israehel apologists or victims they are generally lying through their teeth. Everything they accuse others of is usually a confession.

[@celticali1]

Palestine will rise triumphant💪🇵🇸❤️

[@chrisdonohue1607]

my grandfather when he was alive was bet up in the 1940's by the black and tans, for not doing anything, we Irish know whats its liked to be bullied and we have had enough of bullies in this world.

[@ck27152]

completely agree with the sentiment, but no tans in Ireland by the 1940's

[@johnmckiernan2176]

You may be speaking of the B-Specials in Northern Ireland. Or you may be spinning yarns.

[@rumbidzaisibanda9563]

It’s not upto Biden to decide what’s to be done,America is just another country amongst hundreds of countries

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

So proud of Ireland, the land of half of my ancestors! This Irish-American is actively communicating to Biden and his administration, that never again, means never again anywhere, to any group of people!

[@thewatcher633]

Except the hostages.

[@GordonBoyland-ux8tx]

SAME AS MINE BUT I AM ASHAMED OF THEM ALL MY FAMILY COMES FROM NORTH AND SOUTH ABSOLUTELY ASHAMED OF MY IRISH PEOPLE AND GENES.

[@remustudor2390]

Stop WARCRIMES! Free Palestine!

[@antmagor]

Jake Sullivan: we support the two states solution Also, Jake Sullivan: don’t recognize one of the two states ever!

[@asabry4126]

"Shes had access to our airwaves for a very long time and shes failed to learn anything" Lmao get her

[@user-br9ne9gl5t]

Lmao get her.. really? And she failed to learn anything? Go back to your colouring books...

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

And Catherine learnt everything?

[@abuwojak]

So proud of you Ireland, God bless all countries that are on the right side of the history, all countries watch you, the world watches you and most importantly of all, The God watches all of us! Once again Thank you Ireland, God Bless Irish people 💪💪

[@khallo151]

The song Famine by Sinead O’Connor opened my eyes to what happened to Ireland - growing up in the States it’s never mentioned. I feel the td’s pain coming through the interview. Thank you for drawing such a stark line between Ireland and Palestine.

[@clearskies]

Catherine Connolly is one of our best parliamentarians. 🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

Are you serious?

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

Are you serious?

[@johnmckiernan2176]

@@user-zq7zb6ew8p Yes, Yoav. In Ireland we have pro-human rights parliamentarians. I know, crazy, right? Anyway, back to your apartheid state, with its checkpoints and its Mossad and its jailed journalists and children and its 101st in the world ranking for freedom of the press.

[@user-ks1kr9rd9q]

Fiir

[@LarrySummerlin-ib6de]

When i retraced my ancestors journey i felt hate at times for what they endured. Many are buried at Grosse Isles. They tried to erase our identity. They didn't. Heart breaks for Gaza.

[@geovanniali6060]

They tried to bury us but forgot we were seeds ☘️🍉🕊️

[@doomslayer1984]

Fun fact about Ireland folks. It was the Irish who were initially colonizing and persecuting the English population shortly after the end of Roman rule. The film Tristen and Isolde actually is set during this period. Another fun fact is the Irish had just as much if not more of a hand in the colonizing of ethnic peoples lands then the English and many other European colonists. Sure they didn't invade. But a large portion of the settlers who came later were Irish. So calling Irish victims of colonialism is an Oxymoron here folks.

[@thelvl1bandit345]

@@doomslayer1984 SHHHH lets not speak about norwegian vikings or druids.... the irish are indigenous POC and victims of white European colonialism END OF STORY/s

[@Carolinel673]

@@thelvl1bandit345ignore the planter is everywhere.

[@theshogunsassassin5122]

Hence the word Ir-ish

[@grzegorzgreg09]

Pleasure to listen to this lady! I'd be proud to be Irish!✌ 🇵🇱🤝🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸

[@doomslayer1984]

Fun fact about Ireland folks. It was the Irish who were initially colonizing and persecuting the English population shortly after the end of Roman rule. The film Tristen and Isolde actually is set during this period. Another fun fact is the Irish had just as much if not more of a hand in the colonizing of ethnic peoples lands then the English and many other European colonists. Sure they didn't invade. But a large portion of the settlers who came later were Irish. So calling Irish victims of colonialism is an Oxymoron here folks.

[@robertlawrence9000]

Clown clueless liberal talk. They want to be friends with terrorists? That's funny

[@johnmckiernan2176]

@@doomslayer1984 "It was the Irish who were initially colonizing and persecuting the English population shortly after the end of Roman rule." The "English population" were nowhere near the places Irish people migrated to, namely the modern day west of Scotland and Pembrokeshire in Wales. Next; the English people didn't exist back then. Angles, Saxons and Jutes did. And they were still on the continent. Why? Because the arrival of Gaels (Irish people) in Britain preceded the arrival of Angles, Saxons and Jutes in Britain by a significant span of time, about a century. There is no record of any invasion of western Caledonia (modern Scotland) by Gaels...because you have your history back to front. A Roman Expedition reported them already present in the 300s AD. They merely recognisded their language and habits as similar to those their scouts had reported in Ireland and presumed they had invaded. That isn't necessarily so; the language could have been spread via trade or intermarriage, and there is no evidence in the archaeological for a change of technologies, fashion, architecture or weapons at the time. Lastly; it wasn't colonisation. Colonisation has the specific meaning of a centralised state taking over another territory and stealing its land and resources. The Irish invasion of Wales seems to have been by a tribal group in modern County Waterford that merely took over local kingships and within generations had gone native; Irish names disappear within 50 years. So not colonisation. In Argyll and the Western Isles, the major vector of Irish culture was Dál Riata, a minor sept or family kingdom the Irish territories of which consisted only of modern county Antrim. Since the crossing at that point is less than 15 km wide, in any case, it's not clear if any conquering was done at all. It was more that Ireland became literate before Pictland did and introduced its language alongside Christianity by Dál Riatans intermarrying with Pictish clans, and via the work of missionary monks like St. Columcille and St. Canice among the pagan Picts. So not colonisation. Oh, and the same state of Dál Riata had numerous military setbacks and was itself conquered by the eventual first king of Scotland, Kenneth McAlpine, a Gaelicised Pict from Fortriu. In fact, the peoples had so inter-blended that he called himself "Rex Scottorum et Pictorum" (King of Gaels/Scots and Picts). That's not colonisation. That's a merging of cultures. You promised us a fun fact. What you stated was neither fun nor a fact. By a long shot. PS, Tristan and Isolde is a myth. From the Arthurian cycle. Written in French about 600 or 700 years later. And Arthur and his knights were supposed to be ancient Christian Romano-Britons- ie the ancestors of the Welsh - not Englishmen, who were the descendants, culturally, at least, of barbaric pagan Anglo-Saxons who fought against the Celtic Romano-Britons.

[@Robbikelly]

​@@doomslayer1984big man went real quiet

[@doomslayer1984]

@@Robbikelly I'm silent because I have heard these excuses more times then I can count with you Irish gringos. To the point where I don't even bother responding to it anymore.

[@JohnTreacy-ix3wr]

In Ireland we do not have a Prime Minister. Our head of government is called 'an Taoiseach' ( approximate pronunciation 'on tee-shock'). It translates into English as leader or chieftain.

[@johnmckiernan2176]

Hear hear. It might seem like a minor point, but prime minister suggests a court and a king. Or a powerful president. Ireland has neither. So it has an Taoiseach; the chief, the leader chosen from among us.

[@khookeekeng]

Catherine, you should convince your fellow Irish Biden ❤

[@angiek1827]

He’s got dementia and he’s a huge Zionist. Can’t convince him of anything.

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

Does it mean Irish against Jews?

[@iadorenewyork1]

@@user-zq7zb6ew8p- No, not at all. Ireland against Israeli leadership, NOT against the Jewish people.

[@johnmckiernan2176]

@@user-zq7zb6ew8p Zionists =/= Jews =/= Israelis =/= Bibi and the IDF. Do keep up.

[@johnmckiernan2176]

Biden's claim on being "Irish" is two great great grandfathers. Those are the last of his relatives who lived in Ireland. That makes him 1/16th Irish by my reckoning. Legally, you are Irish if you grow up in Ireland, or have one parent or grandparent who is Irish. Nobody else is Irish. The other claims are blood and soil BS. Biden isn't even an Irish surname, it's from Kent or Essex. In England. Which he conveniently forgets. He forgets a lot of things. Like human rights laws. And picking allies who follow them.

[@mabeaute8963]

Excellent. Those who have suffered at the hands of oligarchies like England and US truly understand the devastation Palestine has suffered.

[@lervish1966]

I agree - give America back to the Indians.

[@Mohamed-ig6hj]

We are glad to know that Orland to recognise the statehood of Palestine.Irland always the foretrun for juices and world peace. Bravo and thanks to Ireland and the people of Ireland.

[@KZ.7160]

Trust the Irish when it comes to standing for the truth and justice. And thanks to Norway and Spain I hope more countries come forward.

[@fedbomb]

I think Republic of Ireland have just gained so much respect on the world stage for standing up for justice and humanity. Well done and much respect. 🎉

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

🤪🤣

[@pao6097]

Highest respect for this woman and the Irish people. God bless them for speaking up for courageously. It struck me when she said there was no opposition. I thought what is it like to live in a country on the right side of history

[@seedsowlife]

I was literally shocked when she said “no opposition.” What integrous leadership in that government of Ireland! Such a blessing to the Irish people they govern.

[@margaretmcguire8952]

Our politicians have plenty of arguments about almost everything but on the issue of Palestine they speak with one voice and almost the entire population supports them. Palestine will be free and will take its place amongst the nations of the earth, just like we did.

[@seedsowlife]

@@margaretmcguire8952 Yes! Let that truth be told!

[@pao6097]

​@@margaretmcguire8952 I am a bit envious of that solidarity for humanity and I commend you all for it. It’s a little bit different here in the U. S. I think the Irish people have so much compassion because they have suffered so much themselves. The highest respect and admiration…

[@margaretmcguire8952]

@@pao6097 We most definitely aren't saints but we remember how difficult our ancestors had it and we can't bear to watch others suffering now, in the 21st century, like they did 180ish yrs ago during our famine. Its wrong and we feel we can't just turn away

[@ronaldo131]

Thank you Catherine Connolly, Ireland, Norway and Spain for giving us hope. ❤

[@ahmadsultani4748]

Thank you Ireland you show justice to the whole world all countries must live in peace and harmony this is humanity and justice I ask all the peace loving countries to do the same. Love you Ireland ❤️

[@antmagor]

Personally, I think if the Israeli ambassador really wants to ask a government official, how does this help Gaza? She ought to direct the question to her government’s own minister of women’s affairs. The woman who famously said that she didn’t give up a damn about Gazza, but as far as she was concerned it could“ sink into the sea“. I’m paraphrasing there.

[@jojob_clips269]

Like a famous rapper here in the Philippines once said: "You can't talk peace while have a gun"

[@arykdaknowmad390]

Talk is cheap. That's why Philippines rap

[@alanrobinson2229]

Very very proud of Ireland. Shame her children, Sullivan and Biden have forgotten.

[@lervish1966]

Chrisum

[@dani_California_]

I am native American and Spanish on my father's side and French and Irish on my mother's, no wonder I'm so supportive and on the side of the freedom of Palestine! And in no way am I against Isreali people but I am an American that believes in Freedom and Justice for ALL! We are all the same human beings who share this planet in this endless universe and we are the only known planet that possesses the gift of life yet this is how we still treat each other? When will humanity wake up and learn to live in peace and respect for our fellow human beings? Imagine what the human race could accomplish if we could figure this out 💔

[@user-br9ne9gl5t]

Humanity will never wake up I'm afraid. Humans are not built that way. Good, bad, honest, corrupt, love, hate. Like it or not, these are all characteristics of what it is to be human. I have no doubt that with your history an origins you are all too familiar with these things. It's sad and cynical but that's where it's at I'm afraid.

[@GordonBoyland-ux8tx]

THERE IS NO MONEY TO BE MADE IN FIGURING OUT ANYTHING THE DEVIL RUNS THIS WORLD GET USED TO IT HUMANS ARE EVIL.

[@Robbikelly]

You are a beautiful mix of historic allies ❤

[@EliDahi]

Respect, sympathy and appreciation to Ireland.

[@lidashamas3590]

Viva Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤we love you, respec and value your bravery in recognising Palastine as a state 👏 tank you ❤❤ Free Free Palastine and stop the genociders

[@thesecretlifeofhuman]

In Gaza the Israelis are not allowing food in. In Ireland, the British shipped it out of the country under armed guard while the people starved.

[@andrewb8010]

What a great appeal to the world by Ireland!

[@mahboobhossain7749]

Thank you Ireland, Norway and Spain

[@aranmcdonagh255]

If ireland was still under british rule in 1948 it could have been us, Britian holds the most responsibility for giving away land that wasn't theirs

[@cristinabutasimon9159]

It has never been Palestinian land and it was Britain's as they won it in WWI. Until then it had been part of the Ottoman Empire for 400 years. Again, there has never been a sovereign Palestinian state. Ever.

[@trevaudio]

@@cristinabutasimon9159 They won it ???😂 but they promised it to the Arabs to create their own state ! The Zionist founders constantly referred to the land of Palestine. But most definitely what there was not, was any state or land called Israel, Judea or Samaria !

[@margaretmcguire8952]

​@@cristinabutasimon9159There will be though, and soon, so get used to it

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

@@margaretmcguire8952​​⁠Don’t even hope. Hamas is done. Government of Israel started building more Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.🇮🇱

[@johnmckiernan2176]

@@cristinabutasimon9159 There was no Irish sovereign state until 1922. No German one until 1871. No Italian one until 1861. No Indian one until 1947. No Slovenian one until 1991. And yet all these peoples were distinct nations or civilizations for hundreds of years before hand. To argue against this historical reality is a delusion. I keep hearing your weak, over-used Hasbara argument. All it smacks of is historical illiteracy and desperation. Matters change, Zionists. No state called Israel existed for 3000 years. Syria Palaestina was instituted in 132 CE, after the Bar Kokhba revolt. The term Palestine was thus more recent in 1947 than was the term Israel. By some distance.

[@vertigo1933]

Brilliant , “I prefer not to respond to the Israeli ambassador, she has had access to our airways for a very long time…”

[@patriciacampbell489]

Delighted that DN interviewed Catherine Connolly, TD (Teachta Dála) member of the Irish Parliament. She is a great spokesperson for ireland. 🇮🇪

[@shootingsportstransparency7461]

Bravo Ireland for chosing for humanity

[@discus2166]

Free Free Ireland Amen 🙏🏼

[@lervish1966]

Free Willy

[@Cybercult]

A lot of thanks to this uprigth standing, Irish people, Norwegian and South Africans - at this point, you are the light against the darkness of mankind. The world now, is a terrible place, your action is a spark of hope.

[@teresagillespie9806]

As an American, horrified at America’s complicity in this Genocide, I am so proud of my Irish roots! Can I trade in my US passport for Irish citizenship? 💚☘️May God bless Ireland and Palestine forever with prosperity and happiness!!! Buy Irish products! Travel to Ireland! Let’s say THANK YOU!

[@IcarianX]

If you have an Irish grandparent, you can! Great grandparents unfortunately don't count though.

[@semsemeini7905]

Check definition of Genocide. Read the Hamas Charter. It's like Mein Kampf.

[@krisellis6384]

Can I come too..my ancestors came on the very first Little ship from England.....stole a loaf of bread...🌏🦘

[@Robbikelly]

​@@krisellis6384All that are peace loving, with a thick skin are welcome! ❤️

[@marybranning8392]

Catharine Connolly, you're a wonderful person. Thank you and thank Ireland. Also thank you Spain and Norway. I wish Biden's gov't would follow suit. Thank you, Amy Goodman.

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

Hate for Jews really got you… In vain… you will not save Hamas.

[@Ferreira-qq9cd]

God bless all the Ireland people

[@IrishFawn]

I’m sure my fellow Irish millennial countrymen will remember have grown up preparing Christmas boxes for Gaza. Our love and care for those in need is not bound by geography ☘️

[@osamasarhan6151]

Thank you Ireland Greetings from Palestine

[@clarity4444]

Lots of love from Ireland. Thinking of you all everyday and praying for you. Keep hope in your heart. Your freedom is closer than ever🇨🇮🇯🇴💚💚💚

[@cristinabutasimon9159]

How many times is Israel mentioned in your Holy Book? 42. Palestine? 0.

[@osamasarhan6151]

@cristinabutasimon9159 The issue is much bigger than a name ! People have been suffering greatly for 75 years and the time has come to stop their suffering

[@margaretmcguire8952]

​@@cristinabutasimon9159Go away

[@jc1124]

Why is Ireland involved?

[@semsemeini7905]

Goes back to the Limerick Pogrom of 1904.

[@johnmckiernan2176]

@@semsemeini7905 Why are you attempting to find spurious evidence of present-day supposed Irish "anti-semitism" when all you can find is Ireland's only pogrom against the Jews, 120 years ago? Hasbara troll. That would be Ireland, one of the only countries in Western Europe who never expelled the Jews (Say hello England, Spain, Portugal!) and one of only 8 European countries that never participated in the Holocaust. Hasbara weak sauce is weak. Weak. Sauce.

[@johnmckiernan2176]

Why are Poles and Ukrainians involved in the Middle East? And pretending to be Middle Easterners? Benjamin Netanyahu? Ancestral name; Mielekovsky. Oh so Middle Eastern. Why it's pure Aramaic.

[@krisellis6384]

There are countries that have stood up..and Ireland is ONE of them....and of course will be THREATENED by BENNY and accociates...but hey.. Ireland know how to grow spuds these days..so they won't starve....🌏🦘

[@PAD058]

If Israel has such a problem with Hamas maybe they should not have funded and supported its creation. Hamas was founded by Sheik Ahmed Yassin in 1987 at the start of the first intifada. At the time the “Islamic Association” (Subsequently Hamas) was seen as a way to undermine the dominant Palestinian political force which was the PLO or Fatah led by Yassir Arafat. Right wing Israelis thought they could use Hamas to play the Palestinians off against each other and keep them weak by having the secular nationalists fighting the religious Islamists. This is fact and confirmed by several high ranking individuals such as Ron Paul (US Congressman), Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev (Israeli military governor in Gaza) and Avner Cohen (former Israeli government adviser) who said “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation”. Know your history...as Irish people do...

[@user-zq7zb6ew8p]

It is a conspiracy theory. Hamas was supported by Muslim Brotherhood.

[@nicholasarnaiz2563]

Long live the fighting Irish. They, too, have been oppressed. It's good to know that Ireland, Spain, & Norway express unity behind Palestine.